"Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin."

-- Tracy Chapman

#Mother Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Singing Quotes

“Movie acting is primarily listening. If you're really engaged, that's all a movie audience wants to see is you processing what's happening in your world.”
“When I was a little boy, I thought when I grew up I would talk Yiddish. I thought little kids talked English, but when they became adults, they would talk Yiddish like the adults did. There would be no reason to talk English anymore, because we would have made it.”
“An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.”
“Let my name perish, -- the poetry is good poetry and the music is good music, and beauty dieth not, and the heart that needs it will find it.”

Source : Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.23, University of Georgia Press
“The problem with the heart is how it can have so many opposite feelings coursing through it all at the same time. It's really an inconsistent thing- appreciating something one minute and hating it the next.”

Source : Joan Bauer (2006). “Best Foot Forward”, p.73, Penguin
“I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.”
“For me I always need to have two sides to me when I play! I need to be a performer and at the same time the producer. So I need to be somewhere up in the air and producing my music. I can't just be the performer; otherwise I can't see the whole view. I need the big view!”
“Well, of course, every actor's limited, and I am the first one to admit it, in all honesty, when I think that I've hit the wall a bit. I'm not ashamed at all, I think it's a process that you have to go through. That's how you learn.”

Source : Interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. May 5, 2011.

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